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Anthropic Draws Criticism For Restricting User Prompts

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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz#698inTech

Our Anthropic overlords deciding which prompts the peasants are allowed to use.

7:27 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 194.2K Views
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Many users criticized Anthropic's prompt restrictions as hypocritical theft of public knowledge and invasive paternalism, while a few praised alternatives like Codex or predicted capable open-source versions soon.

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Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese

What did you think AI leading to new renaissance meant? Perfect equality, or dynastic family patronage networks?

Our Anthropic overlords deciding which prompts the peasants are allowed to use.

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Bren@BrenBuilds

@tunguz the year is 2027:

-you prompt claude about vacation plans -claude checks your bills and taxes -sees you owe money to irs -reports you and ends prompt

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Gil Pinsky@gilpinskyy

@tunguz he mentioned the word 'cyber', now downgrade him to Opus 4.8

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Theo Harvey@theoharvey

@tunguz i've been quite discombobulated today, on release i was winding down for bed so it didnt register. mulling it all over today, trying to predict what setting this precedent means for the future.. my brain is struggling, like I've been roundhouse kicked in the head. really odd

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Zein@zein_alamah

@tunguz The worst kind of people are those who believe they have the right and moral superiority to tell everyone else what is the right or wrong thing to do.

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Tall Roman Statue@TallRomanStatue

@Shimshon1800 @tunguz learned a new German word today!

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Chairman@WSBChairman

@tunguz permanent underclass is real

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Maggy@wentzel456893

@tunguz

#Anthropic #StopAIPaternalism #AIEthics #ClaudeFable #AISafety

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@theoharvey yeah similar feeling with me too bro

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Mariusz Kurman@mkurman88

@tunguz Poor Andrej, he barely joined the team and all the evil points at him 😂

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Tall Roman Statue@TallRomanStatue

@Shimshon1800 @tunguz 😂🤣 now 2 new words

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mj@mjtechguy

@BrenBuilds @tunguz Claude, make enough money to pay off my IRS bill and pay for my vacation. Make no mistakes.

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Doug Calidas@DougCalidas

@tunguz So the premise is that consumers have an inherent right to public access to everything a business develops internally? That would be news to most.

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The Deal Director@thedealdirector

@tunguz 1984 was about Anthropic model restrictions.

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@tunguz This is why they will lose.

Or they'll just change course when this ends up not working. Quietly and without fanfare.

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Basit Mustafa@moltar81435

@tunguz Will the next model release be called cake?

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Gail Weiner@gailcweiner

@tunguz Literally

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